4. The Numbers Give A Sufficient Basis To State It Without Reasonable Doubt, Sir

In an environment where murders comprise less than half the deaths owing to firearms, you would have to demonstrate that something on the order of two murders were stopped by privately owned firearms for every murder consumated, and that is just not supportable.

10. Much To Open Too Intervention, Sir

You can take a fist-full of phenobarbitol on a pint of whiskey and still wake up in a hospital, not in heaven or hell. It is true people sometimes manage to botch shooting themselves in the head, of course, but it is much more immediately lethal.